"dxva_sig" appearing on my desktop

Microsoft's fix applies to Windows Media Player 10. I still have AGP and Media Player 9.
Whenever I play a Windows media video, a dxva_sig.txt is placed anywhere on the hd
and the desktop too. I don't like Media Player 10 very much. One cannot uninstall it
and restore Media Player 9. I wonder if it's the same with Media Player 11. I don't
want to install it since I had to format the hd and reinstall XP last time.

It's RPSE with new username: JC_SE.
I still have the same problem with the dxva_sig.txt
and I haven't found a way to stop it. It's annoying
and not useful at all. It seems like I have to install
Windows Media Player 10 so I can use the fix...
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Microsoft's fix applies to Windows Media Player 10. I still have AGP and Media Player 9.
Whenever I play a Windows media video, a dxva_sig.txt is placed anywhere on the hd
and the desktop too. I don't like Media Player 10 very much. One cannot uninstall it
and restore Media Player 9. I wonder if it's the same with Media Player 11. I don't
want to install it since I had to format the hd and reinstall XP last time.

You can revert back to wmp 9 ONLY if you had System Restore ON and were running Win XP home or pro, you just merely would click on Help and then system restore and find the checkpoint restore that was created BEFORE you installed wmp 10. Be prepared however to re-install all the programs that were installed after the checkpoint that you have gone back to, as they will all have to be reinstalled.

If you are getting conflicting .dlls that would indicate a registry problem due to trying to unistall and revert back with no checkpointers in place and you did so WITHOUT using system restore.

Try going back and using system restore to restore back to wmp version 9.
Again this will only work IF you had system restore on at the time you installed version 10, and it MUST BE ON NOW otherwise this will not work.

I believe that you still may be able to get version 9 of wmp on your machine if you unistalled it completely.

Here is a link with a program that costs $20 but claims to remove windows Media Player COMPLETELY.

You can revert back to wmp 9 ONLY if you had System Restore ON and were running Win XP home or pro, you just merely would click on Help and then system restore and find the checkpoint restore that was created BEFORE you installed wmp 10. Be prepared however to re-install all the programs that were installed after the checkpoint that you have gone back to, as they will all have to be reinstalled.

If you are getting conflicting .dlls that would indicate a registry problem due to trying to unistall and revert back with no checkpointers in place and you did so WITHOUT using system restore.

Try going back and using system restore to restore back to wmp version 9.
Again this will only work IF you had system restore on at the time you installed version 10, and it MUST BE ON NOW otherwise this will not work.

I believe that you still may be able to get version 9 of wmp on your machine if you unistalled it completely.

Here is a link with a program that costs $20 but claims to remove windows Media Player COMPLETELY.

I have wmp9 on XP Pro now and I don't want to install wmp10 again.
System Restore was on the last time I had XP Home but it didn't help.
Later I changed to XP Pro where I don't want to do the same mistake.
I know how it works but wmp10 changes the whole system and that's
why the System Restore is useless. I've read about it somewhere but
I have to refresh my memory since it was a while ago.

It's all because dxva_sig.txt. Yea, it seems like I have to install wmp10
to be able to use the patch mentioned above. But if it doesn't help, I'm
stuck with wmp10 "forever" and I don't really want that. dxva_sig.txt
are still here and there but I will not pay to get rid of it. I was hoping
there was a free fix or something to change in regedit. But since the
wmp10 setup obviously is making some big changes to the system, it's
not that easy. It has been like this since v.9 was released but I don't
think I ever get used to dxva_sig.txt. It seems there's nothing for
this and it makes it even more annoying :suspiciou

But sooner or later we all have to update - and upgrade too...
I'm curious about wmp11 but I'll wait a bit longer because it's
still beta and I want to hear what they say about it.
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Hey, there might be something anyway. I maybe didn't
understand because I know the System Restore didn't
work and I have no time to dig right now. So if you
have similar problem, check out Mattmin's links.

I'll try what you said when time but I have bigger problem with my
computer right now and I would be happy of it runs a bit longer
There's no problem with wmp 9 except there's no updates anymore and I've
disabled everything you mentioned. Also I use the old mplayer2 v. 6.4 the
most and I only play WMV movies in Wmp 9. dxva_sig.txt use to appear
each time I play embedded or streaming Windows Media. Yea that's one
reason to hate the WMV format. At least embedded/streaming. I could
mention even more bad stuff about WMV, but it's not the topic.

I've tried many other players but I've found that Media Player is the best
for me. The only problem is actually the dxva_sig.txt and it seems like I
have to get used to it. But I'll try what you said later. Thanks.​

hello friends
while playing some videos dxva_sig appears and those videos r in green blue, red patches but when i play those videos in other players like power dvd, nero showtime its perfect. can anyone help me out of this.
also some games r not played saying "invalid video mode"..
plzzzzzzz give me solution...

hello friends
while playing some videos dxva_sig appears and those videos r in green blue, red patches but when i play those videos in other players like power dvd, nero showtime its perfect. can anyone help me out of this.
also some games r not played saying "invalid video mode"..
plzzzzzzz give me solution...

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I had the same issue. I ran the dxdiag that was posted and found that on tab 'Display' AGP Texture Acceleration was enabled. I disabled it, and my video now runs perfectly. No more dxva_sig text docs. Yeah!

Luckily for me, this site was the fist place I found for an answer. Thanks guys! Gotta love the web.

It happens when the AGP Texture Acceleration feature in DirectX is enabled on a system that does not have an AGP video card, for example any system built in the last couple of years (which all use either PCI-X or PCI-E).